Nikolai Kornilijewitsch Bodarewski
Nikolai Kornilijewitsch Bodarewski (Russian: Николай Корнилиевич Бодаревский, born December 6, 1850 in Odessa ; † 1921 in ibid.) Was a Russian painter , graphic artist , decorator and art professor.
biography
Nikolai Bodarewski was born on December 6, 1850 into an old Moldovan aristocratic family. His father was a titular councilor , his younger sister was the artist Ekaterina Bodarevskaya. He graduated from the Odessa Art Academy. From 1869 to 1873 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of historical painting with Pyotr Shamshin, Carl von Neff and Pyotr Petrovich Vereschagin . In 1871 he received four silver medals during his studies: two small and two large medals from the academy “For Success in Drawing”, and in 1873 two small gold medals for the painting David plays the harp for Saul . Bodarewski was a representative of the Art Nouveau movement. From 1880 to 1918 he was a member of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions and participated in traveling exhibitions every year. In 1908 he was appointed a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Bodarewski died in 1921 and was buried in the old city cemetery in Odessa. His grave is no longer preserved because the cemetery was closed in 1934 and demolished in 1935 together with the church. A culture and recreation park named after him (today Preobrazhensky Park) was opened on the site.
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Religious painting
In the 1870s, Bodarewski mainly painted icons and paintings on religious subjects. As an artist, he often worked in the academic style , but also used forms from other contemporary styles, especially Russian painting. His work on the design of the Church of the Resurrection in St. Petersburg, which was built on the site where Tsar Alexander II was fatally wounded by a Russian terrorist, is also characterized. There Bodarewski reveals an unexpected side. Unique mosaic compositions by Viktor Vasnetsov , Mikhail Nesterov , Andrei Ryabushkin , Nikolai Kharlamov and other famous painters were created in the church. The mosaics of the northern small iconostasis of St. Vladimir of Kiev and St. Mary Magdalene are based on 16 sketches by Bodarewski. On the small southern iconostasis are the mosaics of Holy Queen Alexandra and The Miraculous St. Nicholas as well as the Virgin Mary with two angels , Archdeacon St. Laurentius , Emmanuel , St. Archdeacon Stephen, two Seraphim and 4 Archangels . On the pylons in the western part are the mosaics The betrayal of Judas and Christ before Pilate .
Portraits
Bodarewski became famous for his numerous portraits. In 1844 he painted a portrait of a girl, a child who did not come from aristocratic circles but from the middle class. It is now in the Saratov Art Museum. Among the works created by Bodarewski are portraits of his sister Elena Kornilievna in the Tretyakov Gallery. He created portraits of the writer Ivan Betsky (1889) and the ballerina Lyubov Roslavleva (1896), among others. In 1889 Vasily Safonowo commissioned him to make 14 portraits of famous composers for the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory , including Ludwig van Beethoven , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Frédéric Chopin , which were completed in 1901.
Landscapes
Bodarevsky also painted landscapes that were not his priority - A View of the Kremlin and Moscow River on the night of Nicholas II's coronation (around 1896). The nature he depicts is beautiful in itself and, in his opinion, does not require effective painting techniques. The motifs of his landscapes are extremely simple and natural, and his painting is free from any claim. Some of his famous landscapes are The Great Fountain , The Gold Coast, and The Moon Effect .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky | artnet. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Nikolai Bodarevsky. In: Dadiani Fine Art. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (UK English).
- ^ Francisco G. Expósito: Por amor al arte: Nikolai Bodarevsky (1850-1921). In: Por amor al arte. May 1, 2018, accessed May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Ekaterina Kornelievna Petrokokino (Bodarevskaya) - biography of the artist, famous works, exhibitions. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Nikolai Bodarevsky. In: Dadiani Fine Art. Accessed July 18, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bodarewski, Nikolai Kornilijewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бодаревский, Николай Корнилиевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1921 |
| Place of death | Odessa |